#ideas

Words are but the signs of ideas. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#signs #words

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

#beauty #conjectures #creating #embody #far

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. ↗

— Josh Billings

#idea #ideas #never #often #seen

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#beyond #ideas #our #sometimes #will

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#as far as #audience #bricks #built #dance

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#any #come #director #done #go

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#because #done #end #head #i

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beginning #chic #i #ideas #nothing

Ideas are the root of creation. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#ideas #root